Roomin' House Blues

Today  Seattle's Women in Black/Homeless Remembrance project held it's monthly vigil for the homeless who have died.  There is a world wide Women in black movement composed of diverse and not necessarily affiliated groups who hold vigils to give witness for peace and justice. In Seattle one Women in Black group holds peace vigil's, and the other gives witness to those who have died in or because of the condition of homelessness. At the vigil downtown today four who died were remembered: Jeffery Davis, 44 by suicide 1/4/2015 James Carlson, 56 outside, cause of death pending 1/7/2015 Kevin Guempel, 49 , cause of death pending 1/13/2015 Juri Skolin, 60, found on Third Ave., cause of death pending. According to the Women in Black 45 homeless people died by violence or outdoors in 2014 and since then 5 more.  The Women in Black leaflet calls on us to be a community and to support a basic social network including shelter. It calls on us to stand with them and t...

If you woke up homeless, on the ground, under the blanket of stars and without enough money to have a home, next to me, what four words would you say to me.  Tens of thousands of Americans are waking up homeless.  People live under ground in New York City.  They live in park and freeway brush in Seattle, They live in the giant storm drains in Las Vegas. People live in rolling homes of beat up old cars.  May are mental ill, sometime criminals, drug users, alcoholics for home housing and treatment has been cut out of the social safety net.  But increasing it's the unemployed, the under employed and those losing their home due to foreclosures. Me, if I woke up homeless, I'd like to think I was their to be one with the other homeless and provide them a little help.  I'd just say, "Here I Am Lord".  But what 4 words would you say.